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State of Illinois FY2020 Budget Roadmap

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AT A GLANCE
Prior to the release of the Governor’s annual budget recommendation, the Institute for...

During this decade of financial difficulties, the State of Illinois’ backlog of unpaid bills has become an important indicator of its fiscal condition, relied on by policymakers, rating agencies, taxpayers and journalists. Now two different ways of measuring the backlog have begun to diverge....